Donna Wesley Spencer's interest in photography reflects her life as a student and teacher of art, history, and 19th-century literature. She studied photography at the Evanston Art Center during her years living in the Chicago area, as well as in various workshops, and Penland School of Craft. She is a founding member of Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL. For the past few years, her studio interest has been in alternative processes, making platinum palladium prints, or printing photographs on vellum over gold leaf, particularly for images of Southern landscapes and birds. Her life as a birder led her to a current project on wildlife preservation. She currently lives in a small town in North Carolina.